Photograph of Northrup Theater — Photograph by Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Northup Theater

Built in 1930 (Spanish Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Northrup Theater was built in Syracuse, Kansas in 1930 by local businessman Frank F. At the time of its construction it was billed as the largest movie theater in western Kansas.”
Wikipedia article Northrup Theater, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1930, Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 116 N. Main St., Syracuse, 67878
When was it listed? February 2005
Category. building
Also known as. Theaters and Opera Houses of Kansas MPS
Township. Syracuse township
When was it built? 1930
Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05000008 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Northup Theater between 2015 and 2018, burning under an acre in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 July 2015	Fireworks	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1500008
29 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1800012
11 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1600027

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this property

60 of 294 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Syracuse, the town this property stands in, in 294 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 177 hail, 95 thunderstorm wind, 9 heavy rain, 7 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 1993	Hail	Syracuse	$50,000	no account filed
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	$10,000	Grain bin destroyed.
June 1994	Hail	Syracuse	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Syracuse	$5,000	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	$2,000	Four power poles destroyed.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	$2,000	Power poles down across highway 27.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	$2,000	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	$1,000	A couple of power poles were blown down.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	$1,000	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Syracuse	$500	no account filed
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	AWOS station K3K3 Syracuse recorded a 69 mph wind gust.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	AWOS station K3K3 Syracuse recorded a 59 mph wind gust.
August 2025	Hail	Syracuse	-	A storm chaser reported 2.75 inch hail and included pictures via social media.
August 2025	Hail	Syracuse	-	Public reported 2 inch hail.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	AWOS station K3K3 Syracuse recorded a 58 mph wind gust.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Reported by a mesonet station.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Measured by the AWOS station at Syracuse.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
May 2020	Tornado (EF0)	Syracuse	-	This was another landspout tornado.
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Syracuse	-	Rainfall of 2.96 inches was observed.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Measured on a home weather station.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Syracuse	-	Water was crossing Highway 27 near CR13.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
August 2019	Funnel Cloud	Syracuse	-	There was a rotating wall cloud with funnel cloud observed.
July 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Syracuse	-	A land spout tornado moved south and then turned west before dissipating.
August 2018	Heavy Rain	Syracuse	-	Rainfall of 2.42 inches was observed.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Wind gusts to 60 MPH were observed.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Syracuse	-	Rainfall was 5.40 inches.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2014	Hail	Syracuse	-	Hail fell for about 40 minutes and increased in size with time. The largest and most damaging hail fell after 11 PM MDT. Damage was done to vehicles, bent 26 gauge roofing, and left dents in the ground.
June 2014	Hail	Syracuse	-	The hail was dime to quarter sized.
June 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Syracuse	-	This was a brief tornado that did not hit anything.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	An irrigation sprinkler was overturned by the high wind.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Numerous power poles were downed by high wind. Two hay buildings had their roofs blown off.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	A few minutes before the gust part of a roof at the airport was blown onto a few vehicles.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Power poles were snapped along road 35, 14 miles south of Syracuse.
April 2010	Heavy Rain	Syracuse	-	Rainfall of 1.90 inches fell in a short period at a location 18 miles south-southwest of Syracuse.
June 2010	Hail	Syracuse	-	The hail was pea to quarter sized.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	This wind was measured by the KSN Weatherlab at the Syracuse Jr/Sr High School.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Tree limbs six to eight inches in diameter were broken.
June 2008	Hail	Syracuse	-	One inch diameter hail was also reported by the broadcast media in the same area.
June 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Syracuse	-	This landspout tornado was observed by weather modification pilots from the air and from the ground. It occurred over native grass land.
August 2008	Heavy Rain	Syracuse	-	Rainfall of 1.20 was measured in a short period.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	JR/SR high school KSN weather lab report.
March 2007	Flood	Syracuse	-	A continued problem from February where runoff from snow melt caused flooding in the county. Many roads were impassable or damaged for a long period of time.
March 2007	Flood	Syracuse	-	A continued problem from February where runoff from snow melt caused flooding in the county. Many roads were impassable or damaged for a long period of time.
July 2007	Heavy Rain	Syracuse	-	Two and one half inches of rain fell during the 24 hour period.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	A 20 by 150 foot tin roof was torn from metal poles. The roof was welded to the poles.
June 2007	Hail	Syracuse	-	Just a few hail stones fell but they were big.
June 2006	Hail	Syracuse	-	Also had wind gusts to 50 mph.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Semi rolled over.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Car rolled over by the high wind.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	The overhang of a roof of a house was removed. Many other houses in the area reported some damage.
June 2006	Hail	Syracuse	-	Also had wind gusts to 55 mph with the hail
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	-	Three semi trucks blown over by the high wind.
August 2006	Flood	Syracuse	-	Roads were flooded in Syracuse and water was reported in some basements.
August 2006	Heavy Rain	Syracuse	-	4.30 inches of rain fell overnight
August 2006	Heavy Rain	Syracuse	-	4.50 inches of rain fell overnight.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000008 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton County	All 2 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.